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| Series Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations for Scripture Versions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Significance of the Commandments | |
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| How to Think about the Commandments | |
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| The Place of the Commandments in the Christian Life | |
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| The Lord Alone | |
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| The Prologue | |
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| The First Commandment: No Other Gods | |
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| The Second Commandment: Make No Images | |
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| Hallowing the Name of God | |
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| The Meaning of the Third Commandment | |
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| The Name of God | |
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| Using and Misusing the Name of God | |
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| Excursus: Pronouncing the Name of God | |
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| Keeping the Sabbath | |
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| What Is Commanded | |
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| Why Keep the Sabbath? The Exodus Rationale | |
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| Why Keep the Sabbath? The Deuteronomic Rationale | |
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| The Moral Issues | |
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| Holy Times | |
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| The Further Trajectory of the Commandment | |
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| Jesus and the Sabbath | |
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| The Sabbath or Sunday? | |
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| "A Sabbath Rest Still Remains" | |
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| Respect for Parents | |
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| The Fifth Commandment as Bridge between the First and Second Tables | |
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| The Addressee of the Commandment | |
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| Honoring Parents: How Does It Happen? | |
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| The Commandment with a Promise | |
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| Further Developments in the Story of the Fifth Commandment | |
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| Protecting Life | |
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| The Commandment in Its Context | |
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| The Meaning of the Commandment | |
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| The Trajectory of the Commandment | |
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| Internalizing the Commandment | |
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| The Positive Force of the Commandment | |
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| A Look at the New Testament | |
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| Marriage, Sex, and The Neighbor | |
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| The Addressee of the Commandment | |
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| The Basic Claim of the Commandment | |
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| The Rationale for the Commandment | |
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| The Trajectory of the Commandment through Scripture | |
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| Into the New Testament by Way of the Tenth Commandment | |
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| Property and Possessions | |
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| The Meaning of the Commandment | |
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| The Legal Trajectory of the Commandment | |
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| The First Commandment | |
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| The Story of the Commandment | |
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| Other Voices | |
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| Telling the Truth | |
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| The Meaning of the Commandment | |
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| The Violence of Words | |
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| The Starting Point and Continuing Context of the Commandment | |
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| Lying and Stealing-Honor and Property | |
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| The Story of the Commandment | |
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| Other Voices | |
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| The Continuing Trajectory of the Commandment | |
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| Truth-Telling as a Theological Issue | |
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| Desire and Its Repercussions | |
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| The Unresolved Problem of Numbering the Commandments | |
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| The Meaning of the Tenth Commandment | |
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| Elaborating the Commandment in the Laws | |
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| The First and the Last Commandments | |
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| From the Old Testament to the New | |
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| Wrapping It Up | |
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| Appendix: The Ethics of the Commandments | |
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| The Givenness of the Commands | |
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| The Context of the Divine Commands: The Covenant and the Prologue | |
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| Responsibility, Character, and the Narrative of the Commandments | |
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| Motivation and Rationality: The Reasonableness of the Commandments | |
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| Sin and Guilt | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Scripture Index | |
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| Subject Index | |